WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET ANNOUNCES 2013 U.S TOUR DATES

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Blue Note Records, Brian Blade, Composer, Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Saxophonist, Wayne Shorter

WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET ANNOUNCES 2013 U.S TOUR DATES INCLUDING APPEARANCES AT CARNEGIE HALL IN NYC & DISNEY HALL IN LA.

Wayne Shorter Quartet, Without A Net

The legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter will make his triumphant return to Blue Note Records after 43 years with the February 5, 2013 release of Without A Net, his searing new album with his long-running Quartet featuring pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci, and drummer Brian Blade. Shorter has revealed the album cover artwork for Without A Net, which features drawings by Shorter himself.

FULL-LENGTH LABEL DEBUT NO BEGINNING NO END SET FOR JAN. 22 RELEASE IT’S ALL OVER YOUR BODY EP

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EMI Blue Note Records, Emily King, Hindi Zahra, Jose James, Pino Palladino, Robert Glasper, Vocalists

FULL-LENGTH LABEL DEBUT NO BEGINNING NO END SET FOR JAN. 22 RELEASE IT’S ALL OVER YOUR BODY EP

José James

Singer-songwriter José James has signed to EMI’s Blue Note Records and is set to release his full-length label debut No Beginning No End on January 22. However, fans need not wait until then to get a taste of James’ intoxicating blend of jazz, hip-hop, and R&B. The vocalist has released the four-track It’s All Over Your Body EP today exclusively through iTunes. “It’s All Over Your Body” is also available now as a single through all other digital retailers and streaming services. iTunes is also currently featuring James’ song “Trouble” as their free Single of the Week.

Kendrick Scott ORACLE -][- CONVICTION – [Concord Jazz, 2013] –

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African American, Alan Hampton, Bandleader, Composer, Concord Jazz, Derrick Hodge, Drummer, Joe Sanders, John Ellis, Kendrick Scott, Mike Moreno, Taylor Eigsti

KENDRICK SCOTT ORACLE – CONVICTION

Kendrick Scott ORACLE -][- CONVICTION – [Concord Jazz, 2013]

With the 2007 release of The Source – his debut recording as a leader – drummer and composer Kendrick Scott established a reputation right out of the gate as an explorer, someone with a generous measure of wisdom and insight to counterbalance his youth and newcomer status.

Nearly six years later, Scott and his band continue to dig beneath the surface to find the deeper truths in Conviction, their new CD scheduled for release on Concord Jazz on March 26, 2013 (international release dates may vary). As the title suggests, Conviction is the vehicle by which Kendrick and company look past the mundane and examine the motivating forces that propel us through life, even in those times when the greater truths are obscured by the tedium of the everyday.

Saxophonist KENNY GARRETT Receives Critical Acclaim on Latest Album, Seeds From The Underground

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Project Receives a Wide Range of Award Nominations and Press Accolades

Kenny Garrett on the Cover of DownBeat Magazine

2013 GRAMMY® Awards Nominations:
Best Improvised Jazz Solo: “J. Mac”

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

2013 ECHO Jazz Awards Nomination:
International Instrumentalist of the Year

2013 NAACP Image Award Nomination:
Outstanding Jazz Album

2012 Soul Train Award Nomination:
Best Traditional Jazz Artist

2012 DownBeat Readers Poll Winner:
Best Alto Saxophonist

New Orleans Guitarist/Composer CLIFF HINES Presents a Rich Tapestry of Ideas, Inspirations & Sounds on His New Recording, WANDERLUST

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Cliff Hines, WANDERLUST

Wanderlust, the new recording from New Orleans guitarist/composer Cliff Hines, is a rich tapestry of ideas, inspirations and sounds patched together from various times and places in the world. It is a sonic journey, an electro-acoustic blend traveling from one culture to the next. In making this record, Hines and co-producer/engineer Ian Painter gathered together some of New Orleans’s finest musicians, including local legends James Singleton, Bill Summers, Kent Jordan, Dave Easley and Helen Gillet, coupled with some of the best musicians of the new generation, including Khris Royal, Ashlin Parker, Mike Watson, Rex Gregory, Sam Craft and Jack Craft. Hines’ core band features vocalist Sasha Masakowski, drummer Paul Thibodeaux, bassist Jasen Weaver, and pianist Andrew McGowan. While all of these musicians are well versed in jazz, rock, funk and many other genres, the music they created together on Wanderlust defies convention and categorization.

Verve Recording Artist Brian Culbertson Nominated at 2013 NAACP Image Awards for “Outstanding Jazz Album”

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Brian Culbertson

(Los Angeles, California – December 17, 2012) On Friday, February 1st, NBC will air the 44th Annual NAACP Image Awards at 8pm/EST, celebrating accomplishments of people of color in the fields of television, music, literature and film. Contemporary jazz artist and multi-instrumentalist Brian Culbertson has been nominated for Outstanding Jazz Album alongside Jeff Bradshaw, Marcus Miller, Kenny Garrett and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

Concord-Telarc Division of Concord Music Group Receives 18 Grammy® Nominations

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Arturo Sandoval, Billy Vera, Chick Corea, Chuck Loeb, Concord Jazz, Concord Picante, Concord Records, Eddie Gomez, Esperanza Spalding, Gerald Albright, Gordon Goodwin, Heads Up International, Kurt Elling, Norman Brown, Paul Motian, Pilar Sanz, Shemekia Copeland, Telarc, Thara Memory, Vince Mendoza, Wally Minko

Cleveland, OH – The Concord-Telarc Division of Concord Music Group received 18 GRAMMY® nominations, as announced by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) on December 5, 2012. All nominations were for albums released from October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2012. Winners will be announced at the 55th Annual GRAMMY® Awards on Sunday, February 10, 2013 at 8:00 PM ET/PT from Staples Center in Los Angeles, airing live on the CBS Television Network.

The Concord-Telarc Division nominations are:

Best Pop Instrumental Album:

24/7

Gerald Albright & Norman Brown

[Concord Jazz]

Curtis Macdonald (Saxophonist, Sound Artist) Releases Three-Song EP, TWICE THROUGH THE WALL February 12, 2013

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Adam Jackson, Chris Tordini, Composer, Curtis MacDonald, David Virelles, Douglass Street Music Collective, Greenwich House Music School, Jeremy Viner, Saxophonist, Sound Artist

Curtis Macdonald, Twice Through the Wall

Featuring David Virelles (piano), Chris Tordini (bass), Jeremy Viner (saxophone), Adam Jackson (drums)

Canadian-born jazz composer and sound artist Curtis Macdonald’s new EP, Twice Through the Wall, explores the hidden potential of everyday experiences and the way those experiences can be altered and fine-tuned through metaphysical disciplines, such as classical yoga, meditation and lucid dreaming.

Jazzheads Grammy Award Nominations!

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Best Instrumental Arrangement, Best Latin Jazz Album, Bobby Sanabria Big Band, Jazzheads

Bobby Sanabria Big Band’s
MULTIVERSE
2 GRAMMY Award Nominations
Congratulations!!!

Bobby Sanabria Big Band – Multiverse

Best Latin Jazz Album – Bobby Sanabria Big Band’s MULTIVERSE (Jazzheads)

Best Instrumental Arrangement – “Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite For Ellington” Michael Philip Mossman, arranger – Bobby Sanabria Big Band’s MULTIVERSE (Jazzheads)

Available at Jazzheads, iTunes and Amazon.

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Gil Evans Centennial Project Nominated for 3 Grammy Awards!

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Ryan Truesdell, Centennial – Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans

Ryan Truesdell’s fan-funded Gil Evans Project CD– Centennial has been nominated for 3 Grammy Awards! The categories are: Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, Best Instrumental Arrangement, and Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s).

We are very excited about these nominations, and we are very proud of this wonderful, historic project. We wish Ryan the best of luck as the voting process unfolds. Mostly, we would like to extend thanks to all of our ArtistShare® Participants who took part in the historic Gil Evans Centennial Project.

Centennial is available at ArtistShare and Amazon.com. It is also available on iTunes with full digital booklet.

::: SOURCE: ArtistShare :::